Language Isolates

Herausgeber: Campbell, Lyle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Language Isolates is the first volume to explore this fascinating group of languages that comprise a third of the world's languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781138821057
• ISBN-10: 1138821055
• Artikelnr.: 54132694

Autorenporträt

Lyle Campbell is a linguist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai'i M¿noa. He has also held joint appointments in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction (Lyle Campbell)
Chapter 1 Language Isolates and their history (Lyle Campbell)
Chapter 2 Ancient Near Eastern and European isolates (Piotr Michalowski)
Chapter 3 Basque and the reconstruction of isolated languages (Joseba A.
Lakarra)
Chapter 4 Ainu (Thomas Dougherty)
Chapter 5 Burushaski (Alexander D. Smith)
Chapter 6 Other isolated languages of Asia (Stefan Georg)
Chapter 7 African language isolates (Roger Blench)
Chapter 8 Language isolates of North America (Marianne Mithun)
Chapter 9 Language isolates of Mesoamerica and Northern Mexico (Raina
Heaton)
Chapter 10 Language isolates in South America (Frank Seifart and Harald
Hammarström)
Chapter 11 Language isolates in the New Guinea region (Harald Hammarström)
Chapter 12 Language isolates of Australia (Claire Bowern)
Chapter 13 Endangerment of language isolates (Eve Okura) References
Index